She's only about a month into her high school swimming career, but Corona del Mar High freshman Eva Merrell is already doing the limbo with the times on the CdM record board.
How low can she go? Nobody knows, not even Merrell.
Just know that her...

In the aftermath of a College World Series appearance that many considered unfathomable at both the beginning and end of the 2014 regular season, UC Irvine baseball coach Mike Gillespie said Wednesday that he was unwilling, just yet, to suspend any...

1) April Ross
The Costa Mesa resident and Newport Harbor High product was named Most Valuable Player by the Assn. of Volleyball Professionals beach tour and was also USA Volleyball's female beach player of the year after a dominant season with partner...

The Anteaters' schedule includes three home dates with Tennessee, led by former skipper.
The UC Irvine baseball team will open its 2015 home schedule against Tennessee, which is coached by former Anteaters head man Dave Serrano.
The three-game...

That cracking sound you hear is the destruction of NCAA's control over collegiate athletics as we have known it.
The centralized power of this body to dictate rules and standards to universities is being eroded rapidly. U.S. District Judge, Claudia Wilken, dealt a major blow to the NCAA and the concept of amateurism by ruling in an antitrust case that the rules barring athletes the ability to profit from their own likeness, names, and images were an "unreasonable restraint of trade."
This blockbuster...

Mike Gillespie, who led UC Irvine to a surprising run to the College World Series, has signed a four-year contract extension as UC Irvine's baseball coach, keeping the 74-year-old in charge of the Anteaters through the 2018 campaign, the school officially announced on Wednesday.
Gillespie, the National Coach of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assn., completed his seventh season with the Anteaters. He guided UCI to a 41-25 overall record and 1-2 mark in the College World Series,...

Megan Munce, a Newport Harbor High product who recently completed a women's volleyball career at TCU, was named Academic All-Big 12 Conference as a senior.
Munce, a 5-foot-8 setter who played 130 matches for the Horned Frogs, finished as the program's all-time leader in aces (177). She ranks third in school annals in assists (3,376) and is 10th in digs (987).
Munce was Mountain West Conference Setter of the Year in 2009, when she helped the squad coached by former Corona del Mar High standout Prentice...

Corona del Mar High senior Jake Wyatt has committed to play water polo at Brown University, he announced in an email Wednesday.
Wyatt was a third team All-CIF Southern Section Division 1 performer for CdM in 2012. He also earned Newport-Mesa Dream Team laurels. The team's lone lefty led the Sea Kings in assists (56), ranked second in steals (37) and third in goals (38). He helped CdM win league and advance to the Division 1 semifinals.
Wyatt, a two-time USA Water Polo Academic All-American who has a...

IRVINE — What turned out to be instant gratification in terms of the victory in the baseball season opener, was the product of delayed offensive execution by host UC Irvine on Friday night.
The Anteaters, ranked No. 30 by Collegiate Baseball, scored all of their runs with two outs to claim a 6-4 nonconference win over Baylor, ranked No. 23 by USA Today/ESPN.
The Anteaters, coming off a 31-25 campaign in which they failed to make the postseason for the first time in seven seasons, strung together...

IRVINE — There was barely a cloud in the sky Saturday at Anteater Ballpark, but still plenty of silver linings in a 5-0 nonconference baseball win that continued a feel-good, season-opening series against visiting Baylor.
Junior left-hander pitcher Matt Whitehouse, who was shut down early and later took a medical redshirt season in 2012, allowed two hits in 6 1/3 innings to earn his first victory in nearly two years.
Junior Kyle Hooper, another pitcher who was shut down due to arm trouble and...

IRVINE — Six days after undergoing unexpected root canal surgery, UC Irvine junior pitcher Andrew Morales made the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo hitters experience roughly the equivalent of a trip to the dentist.
Morales, recorded 10 of his first 12 outs with strikeouts and pitched seven shutout innings to help the host Anteaters earn an 11-1 victory over the Mustangs in the rubber game of a crucial Big West Conference baseball series on Sunday.
With the win, Morales, a transfer from Rio Hondo...